Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 40
But in the Tamil version, the process is described as being of a different and double nature.
What happens: describe, be · To what, where: process, Tamil version
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 described | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 version | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 version | det |
| 4 | Tamil | Tamil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 version | compound |
| 5 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 described | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 version | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 process | det |
| 8 | process | process | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 described | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 described | aux:pass |
| 10 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 nature | mark |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 nature | cop |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 nature | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 nature | det |
| 15 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 nature | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 double | cc |
| 17 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 different | conj |
| 18 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 described | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 described | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present · passive | the process | the Tamil version | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | of a different nature | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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